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Nuke Agency Refutes Anti’s Court Claims, Says Feds Looked at Environmental Effect of Making Warhead Cores in New Mexico

Nuke Agency Refutes Anti’s Court Claims, Says Feds Looked at Environmental Effect of Making Warhead Cores in New Mexico
A mock-up plutonium pit at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, seen during a June 2023 media tour. Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory

The National Nuclear Security Administration, in asking a court to deny an activist’s amicus brief in an ongoing lawsuit, said it conducted a review of producing warhead cores in New Mexico. At the end of October, Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group in Albuquerque, N.M., filed a proposed amicus brief saying that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) should “revert to the single-site production strategy,” with the single site being Savannah River Site, to satisfy a…

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